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Jordanian protesters chant slogans during an anti-austerity rally in Amman.
Jordanian unions staged a nationwide strike today over IMF-backed austerity measures including a proposed income tax law that has sparked a week of angry demonstrations.
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Environmental activists hold up their
hands painted in black to call for the phasing out of coal energy in
front of the Chancellery in Berlin
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International Space Station (ISS) crew
member Sergey Prokopyev of Russia waves to his family from a bus shortly
before leaving to board the spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome,
Kazakhstan
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Firefighters respond to a simulated
fire involving an aircraft at the 2018 Complex Safety, an international
show and exhibition of safety and security equipment, in Noginsk, Moscow
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Edinburgh Castle and the spire of St Columba's Church surrounded by 'haar' rolling in from the North Sea
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| 'Urban climber' Alain Robert of France scales the exterior of the Lotte World Tower in Seoul. French "Spiderman" Alain Robert, who holds a world record for urban climbing, surrendered to a "cat and mouse" chase with security as he scaled a 123-story skyscraper in Seoul to celebrate the recent peace-making efforts between the two Koreas |
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Aerial view of farmers working in the fields in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province of China
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Lava flows on the outskirts of Pahoa during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii
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A firefighter carries a dog at an area
affected by the eruption of El Fuego volcano in the community of San
Miguel Los Lotes in Escuintla, Guatemala
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A brown bear cools off in water to help endure the intense summer heat at Tianjin Zoo in Tianjin, China
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At The Races presenter Luke Harvey
finds himself in a bin full of water as the Andrew Thornton retirement
presentation gets out of hand at Uttoxeter Racecourse
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Armed police receive training during scorching summer in Chongzuo, southwest China's Guangxi
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Ministry of Defence handout photo of
the first 617 Squadron F-35B, Lightning II aircraft making their way
across the Atlantic ocean to their new home at RAF Marham
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| Customers sit outside the Robin pub in South Shields, south Tyneside, which has been decorated with over 300 flags to show support for England and other nations competing at the World Cup |
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